Subject: Re: Cyrix 6x86-166+ problems (?)
To: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
From: Berndt Josef Wulf <wulf@ping.net.au>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/07/1997 23:07:08
Jukka Marin wrote
> 
> > a while ago a friend of mine reported problems getting 1.2.1 to
> > work on a Cyrix-based box.  Recently I had the "pleasure" of
> > trying to install NetBSD-current (1.2G) as of less than a week
> > ago on a system claiming to have a 6x86-P166+ CPU at 133MHz.
> > It's a system with 3 IDE disks, 2 SCSI disks on an Adaptec 1542
> > and a PCI bus.  As far as I know the bus-dma updated adaptec
> > driver should be included in this kernel.
> 
> I was running NetBSD on 6x86 for about 6 months with zero problems.
> The machine was purchased in December 1996.  Last month, I replaced
> the motherboard and CPU to get a better performance (I now run
> windoze on the Cyrix CPU).
> 

Confirmative....

I am running NetBSD-1.2G on Octek Rhino 9 with a 6x86P120+ - no problems...
Well routed and route have a problem but this seem to be a bug rather
than the CPU and hence use an older version for now.

cheerio Berndt
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Name	: Berndt Josef Wulf
E-Mail	: wulf@ping.net.au
Sysinfo	: DEC AXPpci33+, NetBSD-1.2